Speakers

Professor June Andrews

Director, Dementia Services Development Centre, University of Stirling

Professor June Andrews is a psychiatric and general trained nurse. Previous posts include working for the government in the Health Department, being the Director of Nursing for two general hospitals, leading the Royal College of Nursing in Scotland, and working as a nurse in psychiatric and geriatric hospitals.

The number of people with dementia increases all the time as the population ages, which means the need for training and education grows at the same fast pace. Professor Andrews is called upon internationally by governments, local authorities, health services, the private sector and voluntary organisations to give help and advice on how to improve services. Her main emphasis is on what is practical and makes a difference.

Jeremy Taylor

Chief Executive, National Voices

Public service policy and delivery have been the dominant themes of Jeremy's career. Beginning working life as a researcher in the public health and consumer fields in Scotland, Jeremy entered the civil service fast stream in 1989, later joining HM Treasury, where he became a deputy director in the public services directorate. His Treasury roles included higher education reform, relocating 20,000 civil servants out of London, and seeing through the Gershon efficiency programme.

Jeremy joined the voluntary sector in 2007, following a secondment to the Social Enterprise Coalition in 2006 as head of research. He previously headed Groundwork East London, the environmental charity.

Gary Jones

CBE FRCN

Gary is a registered nurse with over 25 years experience in emergency care. He is the Convener of the RCN Fellows, as well as being a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (for services to Emergency Nursing), and a Fellow of both the Royal College of Nursing and the Florence Nightingale Foundation. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Emergency Nursing.

Gary has been one of the key developers of emergency nursing within the UK. He has advised at National level on many aspects of emergency care including paramedic training, expert nursing practice and emergency care in the community, and has published extensively including three books on emergency care. He currently runs Health Care Training & Development Services Ltd, which provides a range of training courses and workshops to both the NHS and private companies.

Mandie Sunderland, RGN, DPSN, DPSM, BSc (Hons), MSc

Chief Nurse, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust

Mandie is a Registered General Nurse who has gained the majority of her clinical experience in intensive care environments, developing an interest in education and training. This led to posts in both professional and clinical practice development where she undertook a Post Graduate Diploma in Education. She is an honorary lecturer at the University of Salford and at the University of Central Lancashire, and in December 2008 took up the post of Chief Nurse at Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust in Birmingham. This is her third Executive Director position having held previous posts in acute trusts in the North West of England.

Mandie has experience of policy development and implementation as the Nursing Officer - Quality in the Department of Health from 1998 to 1999. During this time she was the national nursing lead for NICE, CHI, NSF's and the Essence of Care. In 2003 she returned to the Department of Health on secondment and led on the NHS strand of the Choice, Responsiveness and Equity Consultation.

Professor Kathleen McCourt, FRCN

Dean, School of Health, Community and Education Studies, Northumbria University

Professor Kathleen McCourt began her career as a registered nurse and midwife, working in the UK, Germany and USA. She returned to the North East to join the Freeman Hospital's Cardio-Thoracic intensive care unit where she went on to hold a number of senior roles in adult and paediatric intensive care. After teaching specialist and advanced practice at Masters degree level, Kath took on an international role at Northumbria University, which enabled her to work across the world on health and nursing projects.

She was awarded a personal Professorial Chair in Nurse Leadership and Workforce Development and Education in August 2007. Professor McCourt is a RCN Council member for the Northern Region and has been appointed to the newly formed RCN Foundation Board. She chairs the RCN International Committee and in 2008 was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing (FRCN), which is the highest honour that the RCN can bestow.

Glenn Turp

Regional Director, RCN Northern Region

Glenn qualified as a nurse in 1983 and spent most of his clinical practice in acute nursing - cardiothoracic, coronary care and vascular surgery. His NHS Management experience has been with the Leeds Health Authority as Registration and Inspection Officer and the United Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust where he was Assistant Director of Hospital Services at Wharfdale Hospital.

Glenn commenced working for the RCN fifteen years ago and has held various positions - RCN Officer posts in Leeds, Sheffield and Nottingham; Nurse Adviser for Men's Health Sexual health and HIV, and Professional Assistant the General Secretary. Glenn's current post is Regional Director for the RCN Northern Region, which he has held for the past eight years. During this time he has undertaken secondments as Head of the RCN Institute (job share) and UK Mentorship Implementation Lead.

Pat Bottrill

MBE FRCN

Pat has been successfully pushing forward the frontiers of gastrointestinal endoscopy nursing and patient-centred care for over twenty years. She was one of the first dedicated endoscopy nurses in the UK, and has been instrumental in setting high quality and best practice standards in the field ever since.

In 1977 she became an RCN Activist, and was elected Regional Council member for Northern Region (1995-2003), and Chair of RCN Council (2001-2002). Pat was awarded the MBE in the 1997 New Year Honours list for services to nursing and healthcare, and the RCN Fellowship 2004 for her role in developing and supporting gastroenterological nursing. Since retirement she has participated in a voluntary role in Patient and Public Involvement Forums in the North East, and as a regional representative of Local Involvement Networks as a member of National Association of LINKs Members (NALM). She takes particular interest in issues of Patient Safety, staffing levels and access to primary care services.

Dr. Carol Hall, RGN, RSCN, RNT, PhD, BSc (Hons) FHEA

Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of Nottingham

Dr Carol Hall is the currently Chair of the Education Forum at the Royal College of Nursing, an executive Council Member of the European Federation of Nurse Educators (FINE) and the RCN representative on the UK Higher Education Authority 'Health' Committee. Carol's interests lie in supporting the delivery of nursing education for the provision of a future workforce that is strong, compassionate and safe; enhancing the lives of patients and their families wherever they may be. Her work within the RCN and with FINE has enabled contribution to debate around the impact of mobility and migration in nursing, and consideration about how professional nursing education might be developed in light of the Bologna Process. Carol's PhD and postdoctoral research has focussed upon nursing roles and practices in medicine administration for children and the role of nursing education in supporting student numeracy for safe clinical practice.

Emeritus Professor Jennifer Boore, OBE, FRCN

University of Ulster

Jennifer Boore trained as a Nurse at Westminster Hospital and, after a period of clinical practice in the UK and Australia, studied for a degree in Human Biology. This was followed by a PhD in Nursing at the University of Manchester, awarded in 1976. She was appointed as Professor of Nursing and Head of Department of Nursing at the University of Ulster in 1984. Since then she has been involved in innovative curriculum development, including the first Doctor of Nursing Science in the UK, the first UK pre-registration nursing programme delivered by e-learning and group-work through the whole programme, and the MSc in Disaster Relief Nursing. As an Emeritus Professor she is now involved in writing a book on Nursing Education and research within the Institute of Nursing Research at Ulster.

Susan Oliver, RN MSc FRCN

Nurse Consultant Rheumatology

Susan is an independent nurse consultant in rheumatology with a part time contract with Pennine Musculoskeletal Care Partnership. She is recent past chair of the Royal College of Nursing Rheumatology Forum in the UK and previous Chief Nurse Advisor for the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (2002-2009). In her independent work she has undertaken roles such as planning service re-design and project management for the National Patient Safety Agency and The British Society for Rheumatology (BSR). She has been invited to advise and support nurse training on rheumatology nursing developments nationally and internationally, and currently sits on an exemplar project for informed decision making based upon a model for knee surgery.

She has edited two books (chronic disease nursing; a rheumatology example (2004) and an Oxford University Press Handbook on Musculoskeletal Nursing (2009). Her areas of specific interest include: Biologic therapies and immunology; Social and psychological issues related to long term conditions; pain management for inflammatory joint diseases; developing nursing roles to improve patient centred care, and strategic and political issues related to health care delivery.

Professor Jenny Hunt, Hon. Doc.Sci. M.Phil. BA (Hons) RGN, FRCN

Researcher, author and lecturer

Jenny trained as a nurse at Guy's Hospital, London. In 1967 she was appointed as one of the first group of Research Assistants participating in the RCN/DHSS Study of Nursing Care Project. She has held various research posts in university and hospital settings and also senior nurse management posts. In 1994 she was appointed Director of the new Nursing Research Initiative for Scotland, a national unit funded by the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Office until its first successful Chief Scientist Review in December 1998. Returning south she became an independent research consultant and visiting Professor - first at the Institute of Health Research, University of Bedfordshire, and more recently at the University of East Anglia.

Jenny is well known as a researcher, author and lecturer. She is particularly noted for her work on the utilisation of research findings in clinical practice, the nursing process and more recently magnet hospitals and the relationship between nurse staffing and patient outcomes. She has served on many national government bodies and professional committees including: the Standing Nursing and Midwifery Committee; the Audit Commission (the first nurse to be a commissioner); the Clinical Standards Advisory Group, the Commission on Human Medicines; and as a Trustee for the Foundation of Nursing Studies.

Professor Elizabeth Fradd, DEB

Independent health service adviser

The focus of Elizabeth's work and abiding passion is the continuous improvement of health care. She was until April 2004 the Nurse Director and lead Director for the Review and Inspection programme in the Commission for Health Improvement (CHI). Prior to this appointment she was Assistant Chief Nurse in the Department of Health. Her current portfolio of work includes commissioned independent Inquiries / investigations, the delivery of innovative development programmes and the mentoring of senior personnel. She is a registered sick children's nurse, a registered general nurse, and midwife and health visitor. She has published widely and spoken on many occasions at both national and international conferences, and is currently a member of the National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care and the Summary Care Record Advisory Group.

Elizabeth has honorary doctorates from Wolverhampton, Nottingham and the University of Central England, and holds honorary professorships at two universities. In 2004 she was made a fellow of the RCN, which complements her honorary fellowships of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, the Queens Nursing Institute and honorary membership of the faculty of Public Health. She was a member of the Independent panel scrutinising the implementation of Commissioning a patient led NHS, the Health Innovation and Education Clusters (HIECs) national award panel, and the Prime Ministers Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery.

Anne Marie Rafferty, CBE, RN, D.Phil (Oxon)

Head of the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kings College London and Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Anne Marie holds degrees from the University of Edinburgh (B.SC Social Science, Nottingham (M.Phil Surgery) and Oxford (D.Phil Modern History). Her research interests include workforce, policy and history.

Anne Marie won a Harkness Fellowship in 1994 to work with Dr Linda Aiken at the University of Pennsylvania, with whom she is currently collaborating on a major, and possibly the largest, multi-national study in workforce planning, nurse and patient outcomes funded by FP7. She was a member of the advisory panel for the Centre of Excellence and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing and Queen's Nursing Institute. She is a member of the Prime Minister's Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery.